CNN At This Hour With Kate Bolduan August 23, 2021 15:17:00
Capability to go out and do extractions because there's just not enough troops, they're defending the airport. have you asked for authorization of additional troops to go in to the airport to help with potential extraction should it come to that? >> yeah. i think you used word capability. and the actual troop number i think are two different things. so we have 5,000, approximately 5,800 forces. and as i briefed over the week, as forces flew in, you know, flowed in, capability continued to increase. initial security was the most important ability to establish because without that security the a...
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